Stories

St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation proudly presents stories of some of the donors, volunteers, patients and members of the St. Paul’s Hospital family who have made St. Paul’s Hospital such a special place for the people of British Columbia

HIV and AIDS have been virtually stopped in BC thanks to the made-in-BC Treatment as Prevention strategy pioneered by Dr. Julio Montaner, director of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) at St. Paul’s, and since adopted by regions across the globe. Now, Montaner explains that the BC-CfE will also be setting its Read More...

Dorothy Fobin was “a giver” from her earliest days. Dorothy’s father passed away while she was still a girl of 12. She and her sister, Joan, left high school and went to work in order to help support their mother and younger sisters. Dorothy met Paul Ryan while both worked at Imperial Tobacco in Montreal. Read More...

Patient care at the Gastro-Intestinal (GI) Clinic at St. Paul’s Hospital was potentially put on hold after two monitors that provide essential information about a patient’s condition broke down simultaneously. Staff at the GI Clinic had been having trouble with the 15- to 20-year-old monitors for a while, but the breakdown of the two monitors Read More...

Kent DesRochers, a clinical nurse leader with the Mental Health Wellness Clinic at St. Paul’s Hospital, has witnessed first-hand the pressures that departments like the Mental Health Program at St. Paul’s face to continue to provide exceptional patient care. That need is one of the reasons why DesRochers became a monthly donor to Lights of Read More...

VANCOUVER, BC, AUGUST 19, 2014 – It may only be August, but BC Place will be glowing with hundreds of thousands of Christmas lights as the testing site for the annual St. Paul’s Hospital Lights of Hope. The Lights of Hope – a spectacular display of holiday lights that illuminate the exterior of St. Paul’s Hospital – Read More...